The influence of mindfulness meditation on communication and anxiety: A case study of a person with aphasia
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Background: Anxiety goes largely undetected and undiagnosed in the aphasia population. Mindfulness programmes have been shown to be effective in reducing anxiety in populations with chronic disorders. These interventions have also shown effects on cognitive functioning including attention, executive function and working memory.Aims: To identify the impact of reduced anxiety using mindfulness meditation in a person with aphasia.Methods & Procedures: A 4-week one-on-one mindfulness programme was implemented with a participant who has post-stroke non-fluent aphasia. She completed three intervals of testing; one prior to intervention and two following the mindfulness intervention.Outcomes & Results: There was a clinical correlation between the mindfulness programme, a reduction in anxiety levels and improved language scores in this participant. The score on the Beck Anxiety Inventory reduced from a moderate level to a minimal score. Scores of confrontation naming, picture description and repetition improved, but no effect was seen in verbal fluency scores.Conclusion: Some aspect of a mindfulness programme appears to be effective in reducing anxiety scores in a person with aphasia, and improved language changes were evident in confrontation naming tasks. However, it is unclear exactly what the relationship is between the mindfulness intervention programme, reduced anxiety and improved language scores.
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Meditation has received increased attention in aphasia research in recent years, with studies exploring its rehabilitation potential for cognitive and linguistic change.
“Meditation has received increased attention in aphasia research in recent years, with studies exploring its rehabilitation potential in promoting cognitive and linguistic change (Dickinson, Friary, & McCann, 2017;Laures-Gore & Marshall, 2016).”
From “Giving yourself some breathing room…”: an exploration of group meditation for people with aphasia (2021) · cites this paper as Dickinson, Friary, & McCann, 2017
A small body of quantitative research has investigated the impact of meditation on attention, anxiety and language outcomes in people with aphasia.
“a small body of quantitative research has investigated the impact of meditation on attention, anxiety and language outcomes in people with aphasia (PwA) (Dickinson et al., 2017;Laures-Gore & Marshall, 2016;Marshall, Laures-Gore, & Love, 2017;Orenstein, Basilakos, & Marshall, 2012).”
From “Giving yourself some breathing room…”: an exploration of group meditation for people with aphasia (2021) · cites this paper as Dickinson et al., 2017
Dickinson et al. (2017) found significant improvements in anxiety relief, self-image and reduction of emotional reactivity in their single case study.
“Additionally, Dickinson et al. (2017) used meditation instructions following the script of Kabat-Zinn (1991), focusing predominantly on body scanning techniques, to target linguistic-anxiety in their single case study, and found significant improvements in anxiety relief, self-image, and reduction of emotional reactivity”
From “Giving yourself some breathing room…”: an exploration of group meditation for people with aphasia (2021) · cites this paper as Dickinson et al., 2017
The meditation intervention in Dickinson et al. (2017) increased the participant's willingness to communicate after the intervention and reduced the extent to which negative experiences with disability and aphasia affected the participant's life.
“which increased the participant's willingness to communicate post-intervention and reduced the extent to which negative experiences with disability and aphasia impacted the participant's life.”
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This theme of acceptance was also reflected in Chadwick et al.'s (2011) outcomes with bipolar disorder, and improvements in emotional-wellbeing supporting findings reported by Dickinson et al. (2017) in their single case study of a person with aphasia.
“This theme of acceptance was also reflected in Chadwick et al.'s (2011) outcomes with bipolar disorder, and improvements in emotional-wellbeing supporting findings reported by Dickinson et al. (2017) in their single case study of a PwA.”
From “Giving yourself some breathing room…”: an exploration of group meditation for people with aphasia (2021) · cites this paper as Dickinson et al., 2017
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- Authors
- Dickinson, J., Friary, P., & McCann, C. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Auckland (NZ)
- Corresponding author
- Dickinson, Jessica
- Venue
- Aphasiology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2016-09-28
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1044-1058
- ISSN
- 0268-7038 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-5041
- OpenAlex
- W2524024039
- Cited by
- 41
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 25
- FWCI
- 11.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Aphasiology (publishedVersion)
- ResearchSpace (University of Auckland) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Rehabilitation › Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Keywords
- mindfulness meditation, aphasia, anxiety, post-stroke aphasia, non-fluent aphasia, language recovery, confrontation naming, verbal fluency, communication, Beck Anxiety Inventory
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